I feel like I’m losing the ability to communicate with my best friend. Maybe I was disillusioned when I got a lot of attention from him when I needed advice for a specific problem, but it just seems like we can’t talk anymore. I have to try so much harder to spend intentional time with him, because he lives off-campus at our college, works another job, takes completely different classes, and lives with a roommate who is unpleasant to say the least. That was already hard enough before quarantine. I started calling my close friends every other week to keep in touch, but when I spoke with him, we had little to say. I’ve moved on to just texting him, and today I sent him a message just saying I saw something neat, and he was unimpressed. I don’t think he’s mad, but it just seems like I’m running out of ways to be present without being annoying. He’s one of few people I’m simply happy to be around, and I’m so scared of initiating anything if it means I’m a bother to him.